I recently purchased the entire Mythical Realms collection of fantasy figurines from Safari Ltd., and since many of these creatures appear in my Savage Realms Gamebooks, what better way to show them off than by also sharing an excerpt.
This little snippet is from Malivor: Cataclysm’s Edge…
The passage widens significantly, and soon finds its resolution before a massive, arched doorway masterfully carved from the surrounding stone. Like the dragon statue in the temple, it, too, is completely covered by ancient runic symbols on all sides.
A magnificent chamber, virtually identical to the one in which you recovered the first artifact, awaits you on the other side. There, as well, wrapped in a shimmering sphere of opalescent splendor, is what can only be the Draconomicon.
You and Tolman are about to make for the artifact when a blood-curdling roar stops you dead in your tracks.
Emerging from a tunnel on the far end of the chamber is a hybrid monstrosity that, until now, you had thought only existed in myth. In appearance, it most closely resembles a large, adult male lion, but with the added heads of a dragon and a goat. Each one of its four powerful paws sport deadly, razor-sharp talons and in lieu of a lion’s tail is the head and body of a venomous serpent.
Even as you and the halfling are drawing your swords, the chimera quickly narrows the distance between you and itself…
Malivor: Cataclysm’s Edge is available on Amazon and all of its affiliate worldwide marketplaces…